Water Management through Indigenous Knowledge: A Case of Historic Settlement of Bhaktapur City, Nepal

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Chapter 2, Herterotopians Zones. Inner depths out of outer spaces
In order to accommodate the spatial concept of heterotopia to Carter s work I cast a glance to the zone between eu-topia, the place of good , and ou-topia, the non-place , and to the resulting neologism utopia, which combines both Greek notions in Thomas Moore s (1516) good place, impossible to reach but in our imagination. Utopia leads the way to a better place, yet it only exists as a socially constructed desire. It points to possibilities beyond our reach, to a horizon that escapes us, an ever elusive border. Whereas utopia is an imaginary construction, heterotopia constitutes the uncertain local play of social ordering, operating in reality (Hetherington, 1998), a proper shelter for hybrids and paradoxes.
Angela Carter s work is a world in itself, coherent from the inside as far as themes and voices are concerned, puzzling from the outside because of the difficulty one encounters when trying to assign it to a philosophical or literary current. It is rooted in the reality of the writer s times, questioning cultural constructs and answering back to myth, fairy-tale, history and anything taken for granted. It draws on a variety of sources to state a point, mixing registers of language, media, literary criticism and politics. I see her works best characterised by Foucault s (1970: XVIII) words: There is a worse kind of disorder[ ], the linking together of things that are inappropriate; I mean the disorder in which fragments of a large number of possible worlds glitter separately[ ]without law or geometry in such a state, thins are laid , placed , arranged in sites so very different from one another that it is impossible to find a place of residence for them, to define a common locus beneath them all . (qtd. in McHale, 1987:44)
In order to access Angela Carter s work I asked myself the following question: where does everything take place? Can the organisation of space provide any

Dipendra Gautam, a young hectic interdisciplinary researcher is renowned for his unique and up-to-date research topics in Anthropology. A graduate in Anthropology from Tribhuvan University, Nepal has been paying his unrelenting efforts to fulfil the hiatus between academics and research. His due dedication in research has quarried out many facts behind the indigenous people of Nepal; the approaches for his research include techno-anthropological perspectives on indigenous knowledge and practices. He is a pioneer researcher in indigenous knowledge and practices in Nepal. He has accomplished several researches regarding the dimensions of indigenous knowledge systems through extensive field works and regular attachment with the indigenous people. He has even performed several researches in geotechnical earthquake engineering before switching as an anthropological scholar. He is a well recognized scholar in geotechnical earthquake engineering and anthropology. He is well admired for his dedication and seminal interpretations of research findings.